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After Rizzo is safe from Super 2 early arbitration and moves to SD, they should move Darnell to Tucson and Gyorko to San Antonio. The club needs to get a little more aggressive with their prospects development. Darnell is 24. He should be getting a big league tryout this year. What more do they want to see from him offensively? He already has enough plate discipline and can control the strike zone.

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After Rizzo is safe from Super 2 early arbitration and moves to SD, they should move Darnell to Tucson and Gyorko to San Antonio. The club needs to get a little more aggressive with their prospects development. Darnell is 24. He should be getting a big league tryout this year. What more do they want to see from him offensively? He already has plate discipline and can control the strike zone.

Agree. Look at the Springfield roster. Mostly 21-23 year olds.

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After Rizzo is safe from Super 2 early arbitration and moves to SD, they should move Darnell to Tucson and Gyorko to San Antonio. The club needs to get a little more aggressive with their prospects development. Darnell is 24. He should be getting a big league tryout this year. What more do they want to see from him offensively? He already has plate discipline and can control the strike zone.

they'd probably like to see some defense, but yes he should move up to AAA soon.

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Defense has always (and probably always will be) his achilles heel but he can work on that in Tucson just as well. The criticism with Darnell's D has always been him being error prone, particularly with the throws. However the scouting reports always say he has the range and arm strength for 3B. He's cut down on his errors a bit this year with 7 I believe. I guess it'll depend if his bat is good enough at the MLB level to offset his defensive weakness. It's about time the team found out though.

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Look, I and others think you are overvaluing Darnell and undervaluing Decker, but none of us are hoping Darnell sucks or would come on here and boast about him sucking. We want him and every other Padres prospect to succeed, period. This comment of yours is just absurd. Jaff has had an abysmal month, there's no doubt about that. But look at his track record, and quit insisting on continuing this peeing contest and coming off like someone who seems to want a prospect to fail so his opinion can be right.